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| The reorganization of the business as a single operating segment at the beginning of the year led to efficiencies and cost synergies in our operations that are reflected in our financial results for the quarter |
| So very excited |
| I'm excited about our early success in selling direct to healthcare professionals with our new e-commerce enabled hStream platform, I believe that the ability to participate in our ecosystem throughout one's healthcare journey, including as a student, which is a new target for us, when they're an employee at a healthcare facility or as an individual finding us between jobs even now with this new commerce capability |
| We continue to be confident in our ability to accomplish our innovative organic and our inorganic growth strategy |
| So that's been really exciting and fun |
| I'm excited about how we finished the full year 2023 |
| It turned out to be a really strong winter, small bite-sized tuck-in incremental to our platform strategy |
| And ShiftWizard is very well received in the market for its current capabilities, it's just winning share |
| I'm excited about our early success in selling direct to healthcare professionals with our new e-commerce enabled hStream platform |
| We are profitable, we have no interest bearing debt and a strong cash balance of $71.1 million |
| So over 1 million unique hStream IDs have been issued, which is really exciting, but there's millions more to go and we expect steady quarterly progress on that |
| In the fourth quarter, revenues from our scheduling application ShiftWizard grew 31% over the prior year quarter as customers continue to report high customer satisfaction |
| We are profitable, have no interest bearing debt and a strong cash balance of $71.1 million |
| So in the fourth quarter, revenues from our scheduling application ShiftWizard grew 31% over the prior year quarter as customers continue to report high customer satisfaction |
| The other thing is that we have this great relationship that's growing with Workday, where they're bringing us in to help kind of them have a complete offering, and we turned out to be really good partners in supporting customers' needs |
| But in some of the bigger enterprise purchasing, particularly in CredentialStream and ShiftWizard, we saw -- we see strong pipelines |
| Our ability to upsell and cross-sell solutions to existing accounts, improve our net revenue retention and acquire new customers, including targeting the nursing school market and increasing sales through our commerce channels, are elements that we believe will help us achieve these revenue targets |
| We're making good progress on that as well |
| We continue to deliver solid results as we closed out the fourth quarter of 2023 |
| It is good margin and it is incremental |
| You have to have the reconciliation tools, the account joining tools, the keys on key chains, the management tool sets and we're actually getting very good at those in the HealthStream ID deployment models |
| And our teams are amazing |
| We're getting very good at all of that |
| So, we're excited about the dividend program |
| We delivered record top-line revenue of $279.1 million and record adjusted EBITDA of $61.3 million |
| For the earnings call, I'm really excited about how we finished the full year 2023 |
| We delivered record top-line revenue of $279.1 million and record adjusted EBITDA of $61.3 million |
| And it's just gaining traction and momentum and excitement as we add enterprise class features so we can go after even larger customers |
| And so, I'm definitely excited about this award winning product and its recognition for pioneering new methods of learning and application of AI to the learning journey |
| And so this product is really exciting |
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| Also, a few challenges in submarkets like the skilled nursing, we did see a little higher bankruptcies in the market, which again adds a little bit of variability to the predictability, things that are essentially beyond our control |
| Professional service revenues declined by $0.5 million or 17%, which had a negative impact on our growth rate of approximately 80 basis points |
| The second area that I want to mention is our quality manager solution, which accounted for approximately $5.5 million of subscription revenue for the full year of 2023, and it was down $0.4 million or about 23% in the quarter |
| And while most areas of healthcare have rebounded since COVID, skilled nursing facilities, in particular, have continued to experience financial pressures |
| And so we saw some declines in the product that -- the quality manager product that Scotty mentioned |
| So in the skilled nursing market, it seems to still have some remaining financial stress and a little bit harder to sell to |
| And during that, I guess, I would say in the last quarter or 2, I think, a little bit of softening and some excitement that maybe deal pipelines can pick back up |
| The suite of products was down $0.5 million or 13% in the quarter |
| But it was not correlated to revenues for the reasons Scotty mentioned and it was not -- it doesn't correlate to subscribers, and we saw some potential misapplication of it to calculate revenue per subscriber |
| Now that said, in the last 24 months, as Scotty noted, we've experienced attrition in that group and lost them not to the market, not to the translation over to ShiftWizard |
| That revenue will be a little less predictable |
| As Bobby and Mollie mentioned earlier, we saw a good mix of growth contributors throughout our portfolio, but I want to call out and quantify a couple areas that kept our growth rate for the quarter lower than it would have otherwise been and lower than we expect to see it in 2024 |
| I'm going to need to [indiscernible] it looks like we're having bigger connection issues than I thought |
| I think we did talk about at least for some of our legacy products, where they had some decline and we specifically address the skilled nursing market |
| There are some variables and again, we noted those like ANSOS that are less predictable, we've tried our best to factor in the topics that Scotty covered on some of the challenging areas |
| So that market as a whole, is under a bit more duress, we see a little bit more churn in the customer base, like the smaller ones maybe combining with larger ones or even going out of business |
| So I apologize for that |
| Our G&A and sales and marketing expenses were down 6% and 1%, respectively |
| Future declines associated with the remaining $14 million of ANSOS related revenue are contemplated in our 2024 guidance |
| And so I guess I'd say it has some variability |
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